Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Ever since Li Zicheng started extorting wages, Wang Dehua followed Li Zicheng wholeheartedly.

After listening to the order conveyed by Niu Jinxing, Wang Dehua did not dare to neglect, and immediately went to the prison to find several dead bodies in person.

At this time, Dashun was paying exorbitant amounts of money and there were so many corpses!

Chongzhen is relatively thin and has white hair on his temples.

However, Wang Dehua found a fat man with dark hair, put on a dragon robe, and acted as Chongzhen's body.

In Wang Dehua's heart, he was quite grateful to Chongzhen. Otherwise, he would not have beaten all the officials when Li Zicheng came to Beijing.

Not to mention that Li Zicheng had given the order to find a corpse that "doesn't look like Chongzhen"!

Even if Li Zicheng didn't say anything, he would have found a body that an acquaintance could easily tell the difference from.

The corpse of "Chongzhen" that Wang Dehua found was not only seen by the emperor's officials, but even the common people did not believe it!

The physical difference between the two is so huge!

The same goes for the Queen's "corpse".

Queen Zhou was born petite and exquisite, not tall.

Wang Dehua found the body of a Shandong woman who was "tall and tall"...

Even in order to cooperate with Jiangnan's propaganda, Wang Dehua found the corpses of three men and pretended to be the third son of Chongzhen.

Two more women were found and pretended to be the corpses of Chongzhen's two daughters.

After everything was prepared, according to Li Zicheng's request, it was placed outside the Chang'an Gate of the imperial city.

……

Li Yan and Song Xiance have had a close personal relationship recently.

Since the two of them interacted in the Jinluan Palace that day, they have become increasingly aware of each other's temper towards them.

Since then, the two have become close friends and have frequent exchanges!

On the day when the body of "Chongzhen" was put out, Li Yan and Song Xiance passed by when they were going to court and stopped to watch.

But at some point, two monks came and fell to the ground. Regardless of the stench of the corpses, they were chanting sutras for salvation.

Li Yan and Li Yan had high official positions and left the palace first.

All the officials are still behind them!

Therefore, the reactions of those officials were clearly seen by Li Yan and Song Xiance.

But I saw that most of the generals of the Chuang Army stopped and bowed their heads slightly to the corpse, and most of them even bowed their hands slightly and saluted.

Although they knew that the body was fake, after all, it was the emperor's skin.

The respect you deserve is the right thing to do!

What they worship is not these corpses, nor Chongzhen, but the meaning of the dragon robe.

Even if he is a rebel, he still has a sense of awe!

Courtiers from the Chuangjun line also knew how to salute the fake Chongzhen.

However, another group of people were indifferent.

Just the day before the pay was to be imposed, Li Zicheng ordered the selection of more than 90 people with Mingchen rank and below, and gave them actual positions to serve the Dashun court.

In the past few days, nearly a thousand ministers have been accepted one after another.

In addition, even those officials who were paid were not stripped of their official status by Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng's move is enough to show that they are just idle temporarily. As long as they are not in prison, they still have to go to court.

Therefore, not only the Dashun officials came to the Great Dynasty today, but all the Ming ministers also came!

However, when the two people waited until all the civil and military officials had left, they found that only a dozen former Ming court officials had saluted Chongzhen.

As for those who cried and worshiped, there were none!

(This scene deviates from history. The reason is that at that time in history, there were many officials who had not started to pay. In this time and space, the men arranged by Ling Yiqu quietly rescued many people. At the same time, Li Zicheng had already paid more than ten people. Oh my God, a lot of officials are in jail.)

Seeing Mingchen being so heartless and unjust...

Li Yan and Song Xiance were speechless.

After all the officials had left, Li Yan hugged the monk who was performing rituals for the fake Chongzhen and said:

"Two masters are invited."

The two of them had long seen General Li Yan and Military Advisor Song Xiance face to face, but they didn't move. They couldn't talk rashly, so they just went about doing things.

Seeing Li Yan speak, the two monks hurriedly returned the courtesy:

"General Li has invited, Military Advisor Song has invited!"

After returning the gift, the monks stood respectfully on one side with their hands tied, waiting for Li Yan's inquiries.

"This is not Emperor Ming!"

Li Yan was puzzled and asked:

"The two masters should know that this is His Majesty's plan, why are they still so serious about it?"

The monks laughed, apologized, and said:

"May I ask General, what is true?

May I ask the general, what is false? "

Without waiting for Li Yan's answer, the two asked and answered themselves:

“When the heart is present, it is true; when the heart is gone, it is false!

Regardless of whether the emperor has left or not, alive or dead, today these two people are wearing dragon robes and phoenix robes, acting as emperors...

That's true! "

"General, don't you hear: Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a stand?"

……

Li Yan was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and sighed.

He understood what these two monks meant.

They knew that the emperor was fake, but in a sense, what they worshiped was not the corpse, but the emperor...

Even monks who have escaped into Buddhism know what respect is!

And those Ming ministers actually...

"Do they dare to call themselves sons of man?"

Song Xiance and Li Yan sighed for a while and walked away together.

On the way, Li Yan suddenly said:

"Brother Song, why is it that the character of an official is not as good as that of a monk?"

Song Xiance did not give a direct answer, he made a sharp move:

“Their yarns are all shoddily made and defective products.

It’s not that the character of a monk is superior to that of an official…”

The monk's move may not necessarily mean he is truly worshiping the emperor!

They are drunkards who are not interested in drinking...

However, no matter what the purpose of these two monks is, they are indeed much better than Mingchen!

Even if it's just a show, at least the monks still have a face...

Seeing Song Xiance playing tricks.

Li Yan refused to let him go and asked:

"The two monks just paid respect to the old master, which shows that their conscience is not lost. So, shouldn't Buddhism respect him?"

"No!" Song Xiance shook his head:

"The ancestor of the monk, the Shi family, was originally a descendant of Yi Di.

Looking at his teachings, we can see that China has always taught the people to be independent, self-reliant, persevering, and optimistic.

On the contrary, it teaches people to endure disasters, teaches people to avoid the world and not face difficulties.

From this point of view, I would like to call it a ‘heretical religion, heresy and false accusations against the people’. "

Li Yan raised his eyebrows.

There is a temple in the village where his home is located. Although it is a Buddhist and Taoist temple, there are also many Buddhist classics.

Even though Li Yan is an outer disciple of Taoism, he has also read many Buddhist classics.

He immediately retorted: "When I look at Buddhist allusions, there are many words to teach people to be kind, but Brother Song should not be so disgusting with what he said."

"No!"

Song Xiance retorted: "The allusions of Shimen are not originally written by Yi and Di, but are written by our Chinese sages.

These classics are not so much owned by Buddhism as they are improvements made by Chinese sages to Buddhism.

Brother Li knows that when Buddhism first entered China, there were very few believers. "